“Between the trains going by and people going west and coming back and highways going through, there’s a sense of everyone wanting to be elsewhere.” ~ Dan Maginn quoted in the KC Star Amid the concrete and steal of downtown. Atop a six-story garage filled with cars, grows a field of prairie grass. There rests […]

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This morning I got up early. I needed to be at the hospital to pray before a surgery. I also woke Meg up, since she was teaching PDO, and we went through our sleepy eyed routine. Mumbling. After getting dressed, I closed my door and walked down the dark hall. As is all too common […]

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We took Ivy up to Dogwood Elementary’s playground. It has a flat black-top that is perfect for learning to ride a bike. But perfect does not mean easy. So Ivy tumbled all over the place, as I helped her ride back and forth. We also brought up Phoebe’s 12-inch princess bike with training wheels, but […]

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“Kids found an average $3 per tooth under their pillows this year, up 15% from last year…some received as much as $20 per tooth.” ~ USA Today And just like that my kid is falling behind the trends. Her teeth paying out a measly one dollar. With luck Ivy won’t learn that she is being low-balled by […]

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“The bus farm is where the buses go to sleep. The yellow buses don’t come, only the orange buses.” ~ Phoebe Growing up I can remember chasing searchlights that swung across night skies. Though mom probably drove us straight there, for me it was a mystery. A work of geometry my basic math mind could […]

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